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- 4271: Sexuality In Wiseblood
- ... confronted would invoke both fear and embarassment within most ten-year-olds. Not only was the body nude, but it was inside a casket as well. The author parallels this vulgar display of sexuality with death itself. But Hazel reacted to more than just the sight of the object. He at once realizes that he was not supposed to watch the naked lady, that it was sinful to do so. He ... who is surprisingly similar to Hazels one-time mistress, Leora Watts. Sexuality comes in the form of a corpse, an allusion not to be missed. The narrator depicts Sexuality as being analogous to spiritual death. In this episode, however, one sees more than just the grotesque. Enoch Emery introduces us to the grimmer side of sexuality, a side in which a predator spies on an unknowing woman, and gains pleasure ...
- 4272: Johann Sebastian Bach
- Johann Sebastian Bach Born: March 21, 1685 Died: July 28, 1750 Birthplace: Eisanach, Germany Age at Death: 65 Biography Born at Eisenach, in Thuringia, he came of a distinguished musical family. At 15 he became a chorister at Luneburg and at 19 organist at Arnstadt. Subsequent appointments included positions at the courts ... 1723, that of musical director at St Thomas's choir school in Leipzig, where, apart from his brief visit to the court of Frederick the Great of Prussia in 1747, he remained there until his death. Bach married twice and had 21 children, ten of whom died in infancy. His second wife, Anna Magdalena Wulkens, was a soprano singer; she also acted as his amanuensis, when in later years his sight ...
- 4273: In Fortinbras, Laertes, And Ho
- ... was all action and no talk. A very headstrong character, he was rash and let his emotions make his decisions for him. an example of this is when he finds out about his father's death, he immediately assumes it was Claudius and enters the castle by force, fully intending on killing him. This is what Hamlet needs to be like, but only in moderation. Sometimes, when the time calls for ... without having to think it through for a couple of days. Hamlet didn't want to be brash and end up getting killed like Laertes did, but then again, Laertes did avenge his father's death a lot faster than Hamlet did. And in spite of all the thinking and planning, Hamlet still ended up the same way that Laertes did. Fortinbras was a mix of the previous two. He carefully ...
- 4274: The Life and Work of Anthony Burgess
- ... A Clockwork Orange even seems to have a strong connection to Burgess's early life. The "conservative and pessimistic view of human nature" portrayed in A Clockwork Orange can be attributed to his mother's death (Bergonzi 85). In 1919, Burgess's father came home on furlough to find that the Spanish Influenza had killed both Burgess's mother and older sister. Although Burgess was only two, "This event and its ... to have children, and this caused Lynne to sink into a pit of alcoholism. She died of cirrhosis of the liver in March 1968. Burgess felt that the attack was "an important cause of her death. [Burgess] transmutes this wrenching real-life experience into the fatal attack on Mrs. F. Alexander by Alex and his three droogs in A Clockwork Orange." (Stinson 9). Out of all these influences of Burgess's ...
- 4275: Stephen King
- ... character, Gordie Lachance, is a boy growing up on his own through the memory of his dead older brother. Growing up, Gordie, an avid story teller, dreamed of becoming a writer. Before his brothers accidental death, all his parents would ever care about was his brother. Since his death, Gordies parents have presumably shut themselves away from Gordie. This, to a certain degree is true of King. Because of his father leaving when Stephen was two, and his mother taking on around the ...
- 4276: Adolf Hitler
- ... Hitler. Adolfs father was very strict with him, and ignored him most of the time because Adolf liked to dream. As you can see Adolf did not idealize his father very much, and his death in 1903 actually came as a relief to Adolf. Adolf really idealized his mother, whose death in 1907 had a traumatic effect on him. So as you can see Adolf lead a very mixed up childhood. As Hitler grew up, he failed as a student in the classical secondary schools. This ...
- 4277: The Adventures Of Huckleberry
- ... be, or not to be; that is the bare bodkin. That it makes clamity of so long life. For who fardel bear, till Birnam Wood do come to Dunshire, but that fear of something after death. Thirdly Clemens contrasts adults and children. Clemens portrays adults as the conventional group in society, and children as the unconventional. In the story adults are not portrayed with much bias, but children are portrayed as more imaginative. The two main examples of this are when Huckleberry fakes his death, and when Tom and Huck help Jim escape from captivity. This extra imaginative aspect Clemens gives to the children of the story adds a lot of humor to the plot. Fourthly in the novel Clemens ...
- 4278: Stephen King: The King of Terror
- ... character, Gordie Lachance, is a boy growing up on his own through the memory of his dead older brother. Growing up, Gordie, an avid story teller, dreamed of becoming a writer. Before his brothers accidental death, all his parents would ever care about was his brother. Since his death, Gordie's parents have presumably shut themselves away from Gordie. This, to a certain degree is true of King. Because of his father leaving when Stephen was two, and his mother taking on around the ...
- 4279: Hucks Relationship With Pap (h
- ... things as going to school, or for just being around. Huck thinks that, ...by-and-by pap got too handy with his hick ry and I couldn t stand it. (32) He is scared to death of him when he gets drunk, which is quite often. At one point, when they are in the cabin, a drunk Pap tries to kill Huck with a knife because he believes that Huck is the Angel of Death . This certainly spurs on Huck s hatred for his father. Another example of Huck s negative feelings for Pap is Huck repeated killing off of his father. When he finds himself talking to strangers about ...
- 4280: The Crucible - The Deteriorati
- ... his life there was no longer anyone but Abigail to lead the community. The justice system is designed to protect the people that it serves but during the trials the accused witch had two choices, death or imprisonment. The punishment of death was given to all people that pleaded not guilty; the other punishment was to plead guilty and go to jail. John Proctor gave his view of the justice system when he said I like not ...
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